Those deep water rigs use an enormous amount of diesel fuel to turn the drill bit, and also resist the force that is turning the drill bit and would otherwise force the platform to start turning in the opposite direction.
Using the company's Force.com platform, Benioff hopes to entice outside developers to build out all sorts of business software to reach his 68, 000 customers.
It will help Salesforce.com gain additional revenues from the Force.com platform as well as from its core CRM product due to cross-selling by Infor.
The company also offers AppExchange, which is an online directory that provides customers a way to browse, test-drive, share and install applications developed on the Force.com platform.
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Today Salesforce will partner with other vendors (CyberU, Vana, Blackboard, Workday, and just about anyone else who wants to use the Force.com platform) to help its customers implement other applications like recruiting, training, compensation management, etc.
Additionally, we are working to unwire CRM for our sales force using Sybase Unwired Platform.
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During the Bates' time on the platform, they saw off an attempt by the Royal Navy to evict them, and an attempt by a group of German and Dutch businessmen to seize control of the platform by force in 1978.
In short if all goes according to plan, it will follow the same roadmap of every other product Salesforce.com has introduced from its flagship software-as-a-service CRM platform to Force.com: well-made, well-researched product, exuberant introduction by CEO Marc Benioff, media blitz, followed by new corporate supporters.
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Although there are hundreds of group-buying sites in existence, there are only a half a dozen that have a turn-key solution: a known presence in top markets, editorial infrastructure, a credible and local sales force and a sophisticated technology platform that can scale.
Salesforce.com has Force.com, a development platform that sits on top of its industrial-strength software-as-a-service infrastructure.
It is about creating the platform for the great driving force of Conservatism through the ages - the promotion of individual opportunity.
Salesforce.com offers Force.com, which is the development platform and infrastructure for corporate IT departments and independent developers to build business applications.
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The Android platform from Google is also becoming a force in emerging markets.
That said, the Foundation's funding situation could force Nokia to take action if it wants the platform to continue to develop and evolve, but we suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Berry was the primary force behind the continual and rapid development of the HuffPost platform.
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"The support for this issue has always been there, but the Internet is the platform the issue has needed to become a force in American politics, " said David All, a Republican online strategist based in Washington.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the driving force behind a new effort to harness biology as a manufacturing platform.
The PARC group first considered putting the cells on a rotating platform like a CD-ROM but nixed that because centrifugal force in rotation might pull the cells off the platter.
Most big brands will forgo the six months it takes to build a platform, staff infrastructure, standardize editorial guidelines, and build a sales force in major U.S. markets.
As long ago as the end of World War II, the Air Force realized it needed to provide neophyte pilots with more than just a moving flight simulator platform and a crisp video display.
We are also more bullish on Force.com and its ability to transform the company from just an applications company to a platform vendor.
Music is clearly the driving force, Strategy Analytics says: when audio represents 45 percent of the content on a generic platform like Dropbox, companies ignore tunes at their own peril.
Meeker made the point back in 2009 that the Mobile platform will be the next great computing cycle, creating, as she put it, the greatest force for business disruption and wealth creation in history.
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And at salesforce.com (CRM), Holleran help lead its transition from a Small and Medium-Sized Business sales force automation SaaS company to one more focused on global enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications and cloud platform services.
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But the Kirchners, both of whom campaigned on a platform of prosecuting abuses from the country's 1976-83 military dictatorship, are wary of using force against protesters.
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